Re: mac-fdisk trouble on G4 double disk

- Original Message - From: Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Georg Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 10:43 PM Subject: Re: mac-fdisk trouble on G4 double disk > Georg Koss wrote: > > > > mac-fdisk wasn't able to recognize my hda-size correct (gave round >

Re: Installation problem on New World G4

- Original Message - From: Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 5:26 AM Subject: Re: Installation problem on New World G4 > Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am working on installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 "Potato" - > > Official powerpc Binary-1 C

Re: New: installation on g4

>Ethan Benson >http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ >woody boot-floppies take care of all these steps for you with its >make system bootable step, they are only required on potato, another >reason not to use potato bootfloppies, unless you really want to run >potato (i only know of 2 or 3 people tha

New: installing on g4

hi all, partitioning of hdd works now, thanks to Ethan Benson... hda1Apple_Partition_Map hda2Apple_Bootstrap hda3Apple_UNIX_SVR2swap hda4Apple_UNIX_SVR2root on first bootup (cd-rescueimage root=/dev/hda4) after installing basesystem 2.2r3 strange things happens like the o

Re: installation on g4

>On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 02:44:18PM +0200, Martin Breidung wrote: >> hda1: Apple_Partitiontable length 63 blocks >> hda2: Apple_Bootstraplength 1600 blocks >> hda3: swaplength 524288 blocks (256MB) >this must be type Apple_UNIX_SVR2 with name `swap' &g

installation on g4

hi all!   i use debian-linux on pc for a long time, but i'm new with ppc...   i've tried to install debian ppc 2.2r3 on a g4-400 pci. atapi-cdrom and ide-hdd are generic, the hdd's tested are 3,2gb fujitsu and 6,4gb ibm, both from pc. the hdd's are initialized with mac-fdisk for apple-use in